{"id":408793,"date":"2026-05-02T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/408793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:32:11","slug":"how-artemis-ii-astronauts-managed-a-toilet-malfunction-mid-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/408793\/","title":{"rendered":"How Artemis II astronauts managed a toilet malfunction mid-mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What really happens when a toilet breaks down in space? The <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/artemis-ii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Artemis II;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Artemis II<\/a> astronauts have recounted exactly what they did when they were <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/artemis-ii-crew-member-becomes-124548304.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:faced with a mid-mission malfunction;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">faced with a mid-mission malfunction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On the first day of the historic mission last month, the crew reported the $30m (\u00a322.6m) Universal Waste Management System (UWMS) onboard the rocket was not working due to an issue with the toilet fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Appearing on CBS Mornings, the crew were asked by a young audience member if they just \u201clet it fly around\u201d, prompting laughter around the studio.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/christina-koch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Christina Koch;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Christina Koch<\/a> explained the ways the crew functioned without a working toilet. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t as easy as our fancy good toilet, but we made do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After mission control teams on the ground assessed data, they were able to fix the problem with the help of the Artemis II crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What really happens when a toilet breaks down in space? The Artemis II astronauts have recounted exactly what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[37812,111,139,69,147,392,29889,210346],"class_list":["post-408793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-christina-koch","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space","tag-toilet","tag-universal-waste-management-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}